invade a planet with no pop?

Bone · #1 January 18th, 2005, 06:36 PM

i am in a game right now where a hated enemy has a planet in an adjacent system with no pop. i went to invade it and it won't do it. the ships just mill about.

the entire fleet is on "capture planet" strat, plenty of troops and invader transports.

anyone seen this before? thanks.

kerensky · #2 January 18th, 2005, 06:45 PM

The computer will not land troops on a planet without any population on it, at least in my experience. You can manually take over planets with no population.

Bone · #3 January 18th, 2005, 07:15 PM

thanks kerensky. i did not know this.
do you know how i can "manually" take it over? i don't know that that means.

EDIT: DOH! i know what you mean, manually drop troops.
dang, i need some more coffee. i never thought of that. sheehs. thanks.

geoschmo · #4 January 18th, 2005, 07:43 PM

Manually dropping troops requires tactical combat. If this is a PBW, PBEM or TCP/IP game, or hotseat turn game with tactical combat disabled , you aren't going to be able to capture the planet. You'll have to slag it. Or give him time to send some people ther eand then capture it.

Puke · #5 January 18th, 2005, 07:43 PM

i thought that was fixed in the Last patch?

Ed Kolis · #6 January 18th, 2005, 07:56 PM

Yeah, it seemed to work fine when Dinesku took my planet with no population, then my satellites wiped it out, in the Junkyard 24XX game

Bone · #7 January 18th, 2005, 08:14 PM

it's against the CPU and i can do tactical. thanks.

i just never once thought of it.

"slag it"? what does that mean?

i might not have the latest patch, i've not played SE for about 6 monthts until this game. i think i have 1.84 or something.

Baron Munchausen · #8 January 18th, 2005, 08:38 PM

slag = the leftover junk from smelting ore

I.E. destroy it, reduce it to rubble.

Bone · #9 January 18th, 2005, 08:48 PM

i tried and i couldn't. it said 100% destroyed... but it was still in posession of my evil enemy. wierd.

Raging Deadstar · #10 January 18th, 2005, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Ed Kolis said:
Yeah, it seemed to work fine when Dinesku took my planet with no population, then my satellites wiped it out, in the Junkyard 24XX game

Someone is a bit too happy with a flukey victory over a Crazy Romanian, I'm sure your empires news reports were more forgiving Ed

Bone: I've had that error a few times where the planet wouldn't be destroyed or damaged... I found if you just attacked again it would work again.